puckleberry challenge #1: “everything you want” by vertical horizon
i am everything you want, i am everything you need
i am everything inside of you that you wish you could be
top leverage moments: eliot and kaye lynn, 3x06 (“the studio job”)
KAYE LYNN: “How do you feel when you play?”
ELIOT: “I think… I think I got it.”
KAYE LYNN: “See that’s your problem. You’re thinkin’ about how to play the song and I’m askin’ you how do you feel when you play… You ever been in love?”
ELIOT: “Once.”
KAYE LYNN: “How’d it end?”
ELIOT: “I made her a promise that if she ever needed me that I’ll be there for her.”
KAYE LYNN: “What’s wrong with that?”
ELIOT: “Because I made the same promise to the United State government… and I found out you can’t make that promise to more than one person.”
KAYE LYNN: “That feeling? Right there? Hold on to that. You’ll do just fine.”

top leverage moments: parker and eliot, 4x01 (“the long way down job”)
ELIOT: “It’s done!”
PARKER: “No! This is what we’re supposed to do. We’re supposed to get him back to his wife. Nate would do it, Sophie would do it, Hardison would do it… They would do the right thing. I want to do the right thing!”
top leverage moments: parker and hardison, 1x06 (“the stork job”)
PARKER: “You think this is the only crappy orphanage in this place? This is a country full of orphans, okay? We can’t save them all.”
HARDISON: “No, but we can save this one. Parker, we can—- we can save this one. Look, I know growing up was tough. I know you that grew up in the system and I—- it was… it was bad, it was worse than bad, but that doesn’t mean that all foster parents are monsters. Mine wasn’t.”
PARKER: “You grew up with your grandmother.”
HARDISON: “We called her Nana, but she was our foster mom. She, uh… She would cuss like a sailor. Ol’ girl will tan your ass just as soon as she look at you. But she fed us, she bathed us, she put a roof over our heads and oh, she would raise hell if you so much as looked at us crooked.”
PARKER: “Yeah? Well, you were lucky… No. We put these kids in the system and odds are? They’re gonna… They’re gonna… They’re turn out like me.”
HARDISON: “I like how you turned out.”